Mumbai, November 27, 2006: Reliance Communications Limited has announced today the launch of a unique scheme that offers ‘Free Group Term Life Cover’ (TLC) exclusively to more than 25 million  CDMA subscribers of Reliance Mobile and Reliance Hello. This, first of its kind scheme in the country, offers Reliance Communications’ customers an insurance cover of upto Rs 50,000 merely through an SMS without paying any premium.

“The Free Group Term Life cover is a step in line with the constant endeavour of Reliance Communications to enhance the value offering to our many million customers”, said Mr. S.P. Shukla, President – Personal Business, RCL. “With Reliance Group serving over 50 million consumers in the country, this is the first step in our quest to extend the benefits of the synergy among the group companies to our customers”, he added.

This Group Term Life Cover is underwritten by Reliance Life Insurance Company Limited, an associate company of Reliance Capital Limited. The minimum cover is Rs 5,000 for the prepaid and Rs 10,000 for the post-paid CDMA subscribers. However, the maximum cover is Rs 50,000 for both types of subscribers. The cover is valid for a period of 6 months from the date a subscriber responds to the company by SMS, provided the Master Policy is in force. The cover offered is calculated on the basis of previous six months cumulative recharges for the prepaid subscribers and cumulative bills for the post- paid subscribers.

Subscribers have to just send an SMS from their handsets to 5433 mentioning their city and the Free Group Term Life Cover will be activated on the very same day. They would receive a reply SMS requesting them to visit the COI microsite (relianceadagroup.com/TLP) to download their certificate of insurance. All current, prepaid and postpaid  CDMA subscribers of Reliance Mobile or Reliance Hello between the age of 18 and 59 years are eligible under this scheme.

In case of any unfortunate eventuality, the subscriber’s nominee will have to get in touch with Reliance Life Insurance Company to file the claim. However the claim would be entertained only one month (30 days waiting period) after the cover activation by SMS. The Free Group Term Life Cover is a pure risk cover. Annexure A details the minimum and maximum cover, monthly ranges and sum assured for the Free Group Term Life Cover.
 

The company has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting the best-of-class services spanning the entire Communications’ value chain, covering over 6000 towns and 3,00,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the World’s largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 150,000 kilometres of fiber optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. The company’s subsidiary, FLAG Telecom owns the World’s largest private undersea cable system, which spans 65,000 kilometres and connects the top business centres in developed and emerging markets across 6 continents.